Olavi Kuronen

Olavi Kuronen
Full name	Eino Olavi Kuronen
nation	Finland
birthday	January 22, 1923
place of birth	Maaninka ,  Finland
date of death	January 8, 1989
Place of death	Joensuu ,  Finland
Career
society	Puijon Hiihtoseura
Medal table
US championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
US championships gold 1950 Duluth Normal hill

Eino Olavi Kuronen (born January 22, 1923 in Maaninka , † January 8, 1989 in Joensuu ) was a Finnish ski jumper .

Career

In 1950 Kuronen jumped a Finnish record with 90 m on the then largest Finnish hill, the Puijo hill in Kuopio . In the same year he won the US ski jumping championship and was awarded the Torger Tokle Memorial Trophy , an award for the winner of the US championships of the Norway Club New York in Duluth , Minnesota . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lake Placid in 1950 , he was twelfth on the normal hill with jumps of 64.5 m and 62 m.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1956 , he was twelfth on the normal hill. It was the only international tournament in which he competed.

Web links

• Olavi Kuronen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Toger Tokle Memorial Trophy ( Memento from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
2. ↑ 1950 Verdensmester. Retrieved March 9, 2009 . 
3. ^ Result - Stor bakke M - Skihop - Oslo 1952. (No longer available online.) Www.games-encyclo.org, archived from the original on January 13, 2016 ; Retrieved March 9, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.